Why Meditate?
In this chaotic, neurotic, fast-paced, rat race, keep-up-with-the-Jones’, “ego too big to own this” American culture, more and more people are seeking respite from the insanity in meditation practice. Meditating has been proven to show some serious health benefits that you may not be aware of.
“Meditation can help reverse heart disease, the number-one killer in the U.S.
It can reduce pain and enhance the body’s immune system, enabling it to better fight disease.
Meditation has a pervasive effect on stress. (People who had meditated for four months and found that they produced less of the stress hormone cortisol.)” Quoted from a great article in Psychology Today.
We hear a lot about cortisol and the damaging effects of stress in an interview I do with Stress Management Expert, Louise Lowry. In our two part series of interviews with Louise, a powerful professional stress expert and coach, she covers the major contributors to our stress, some alternative approaches to relieving stress as well as information on a new crisis that is affecting the “Milennials” of today called the “Quarter Life Crisis.”
Check it out. Then go sit and just be…

